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COMMUNITIES RESIST

EIN 84-1899350 BROOKLYN, NY

Largest nonprofits in New York

Revenue 2023
$3,995,859
Expenses 2023
$3,998,429

Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L21
Classification
1000
Street
312 BROADWAY 2ND FLOOR

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

WE JOIN OUR CLIENTS IN THE STRUGGLE TO ORGANIZE, ASSERT THEIR RIGHTS AND PROTECT THEIR HOMES. WE WORK TO ENSURE THAT COMMUNITY VOICES ARE CENTERED IN THE DECISIONS THAT IMPACT THEIR LIVES AND NEIGHBORHOODS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

CORE IS A COMMUNNITY-BASED LAW OFFICE THAT PARTNERS WITH COMMUNITIES OF COLOR IN BROOKLYN AND QUEENS TO COMBAT PREDATORY CAPITALISM, GENTRIFICATION AND STRUCTURAL RACISM.

  • COMMUNITIES RESIST WORKS CLOSELY WITH A NETWORK OF OVER 20 COMMUNITY-BASED PARTNERS THAT ORGANIZE TENANTS IN BROOKLYN AND QUEENS TO ACTIVELY REPRESENT 110 TENANT ASSOCIATIONS AND OVER 2,250 INDIVIDUALS IN BOTH BOROUGHS: FROM WILLIAMSBURG, BUSHWICK, EAST NEW YORK, AND BROWNSVILLE IN BROOKLYN TO JACKSON HEIGHTS, FLUSHING, AND RIDGEWOOD IN QUEENS. OURS IS A RESISTANCE THAT PLAYS OUT BOTH INSIDE THE COURTROOM AND ON THE STREETS, AS WE FIGHT ALONGSIDE THOSE WE SERVE TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE.

    Expenses $3,280,899 · Grants $465,415 · Revenue $79,603

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Adam Ross Meyers

    Director of Litigation

    Total calculated
    $175,049
    From this org
    $148,923
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $26,126
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $148,923
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,476
    Nontaxable benefits
    $18,650
    Filer's total
    $175,049

  • Angela F Piguave

    DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $169,023
    From this org
    $154,438
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,585
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $154,438
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,752
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,833
    Filer's total
    $169,023

  • Lina Lee

    FORMER Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $123,737
    From this org
    $112,201
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,536
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $112,201
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,630
    Nontaxable benefits
    $5,906
    Filer's total
    $123,737

  • Milagros Sandoval

    DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZING

    Total calculated
    $116,496
    From this org
    $105,678
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $10,818
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $105,678
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,985
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,833
    Filer's total
    $116,496

  • Nick E Smith

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $13,561
    From this org
    $12,188
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,373
    Hours/week
    40

  • Albert Suh

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbara Schliff

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ezinwanyi Ukegbu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rachel Nager

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Parth Khare

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Juan Ramos

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,995,859
    Expenses
    $3,998,429
    Contributions
    $3,916,844
    Grants paid
    $465,415
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,776,140
    Expenses
    $3,291,874
    Contributions
    $3,712,346
    Grants paid
    $458,118

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,674,478
    Expenses
    $3,105,122
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,529,966

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,733,097
    Expenses
    $3,479,288
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,732,599

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,336,653
    Expenses
    $2,385,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $909,436

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $71,524
    Expenses
    $51,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,087

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $71,524
    Expenses
    $51,437
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,087

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.